Major dial-a-dope line dismantled in Kamloops: RCMP

Nine suspected drug traffickers linked to organized crime have been arrested in Kamloops afer an eight-month undercover investigation.
Kamloops RCMP announced Thursday that all nine are expected to face charges related to trafficking and to committing their offences for the benefit of an organized crime group.
S.Sgt. Grant Learned said in a news release that the investigation has “shut down an organized criminal dial a dope operation in Kamloops and dismantled the main supplier of cocaine to that group.”
He said the probe, dubbed Project Enocturnal began last February after police got intelligence about the crime group setting up a dial-a-dope line for cocaine in Kamloops.
The local group has links to a Lower Mainland gang, Learned said, though didn’t identify which one.
“The group was mobile and would orchestrate the sale of cocaine at the street level via orders received via telephone communication,” he said. “The group was well organized, was trafficking large amounts of cocaine (close to 1 kilogram) on a monthly basis and were profiting on the addiction created by the sale of this illegal drug.”
The drug line served recreational cocaine users who were spending upwards of $1000 per month on cocaine.

Undercover police infiltrating the drug line and made 20 coke purchases.
“During the course of the investigation, an authorization to intercept private communications, including text messages, was granted and the investigative team began to monitor the private communications of two persons associated to the group and the drug line itself,” Learned said.
“Through different investigative techniques, all the individuals associated to this group were identified including the purchasers, distributors and the main cocaine supplier who is a Kamloops resident.”
Police also executed five search warrants and seized
During the later part of the investigation 5 seized more than a kilo of cocaine, $142,000 cash, a cocaine pressing kit, bullet proof vests and two rifles, a handgun, sawed off gun barrel and ammunition.
All those arrested are between 20 and 40. Their names won’t be released until they make first appearances.